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The BMW R75 is a World Warfare II-era motorcycle and sidecar blend made by the German company BMW.

Inside the 1930s BMW were creating a range of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in reaction to a need from the German Military.

Preproduction types of the R75 were power with a 750 cc side valve engine, which was predicated on the R71 engine motor. However it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine for the R75 product. This OHV engine unit later became the basis for succeeding post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The third side-car wheel was driven with an axle connected to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. They were built in with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road products ratios by which all four and reverse gears performed. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most floors. A few other motorcycle manufactures, like FN and Norton, provided an optional drive to sidecars.

The BMW R75 and its competitor the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both greatly utilized by the Wehrmacht in Russia and North Africa, though over time of analysis it became clear that the Z?ndapp was the superior machine. In August 1942 Z?ndapp and BMW, on the urging of the Army, agreed upon standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually building a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (specified the BW 43), when a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. In addition they decided that the make of the R75 would stop once production come to 20,200 devices, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, processing 20,000 every year.

Since the goal of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it remained in production until the Eisenach manufacturing plant was so badly harmed by Allied bombing that creation ceased in 1944. An additional 98 devices were set up by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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